Summary
Nick Wehner is a software engineer in Pittsburgh with 11 years of experience building production web services, APIs, and multilingual tools that bridge technical and scientific communities. He led engineering efforts across startups and nonprofit projects—reducing support volume for a modern dropship product by over 80% within six months and building Siphonophore, a language-agnostic discussion server that auto-translates content for global ocean conservation researchers. Skilled across full-stack systems, cloud migrations (GCP→AWS), OAuth 2.1/JWE/JWT security patterns, and integrations with DocuSign, Salesforce, and Zendesk, he combines pragmatic infrastructure work with customer-driven product development. Trained in marine affairs and ecology, Nick brings domain expertise in environmental science to technical solutions, turning research workflows into accessible, multilingual platforms. He’s also a cat lover who prefers shipping working software and iterating from real user feedback.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Marine Affairs, Marine Pollution, Science Communication, Citizen Science, Master of Marine Affairs, Marine Pollution, Science Communication, Citizen Science at University of Washington School of Marine & Environmental Affairs
Honors Bacheolors of Science with Distinction, Biological Sciences, Concentration in Ecology and Organismic Biology, Honors Bacheolors of Science with Distinction, Biological Sciences, Concentration in Ecology and Organismic Biology at University of Delaware